Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though not unprovoked, is certainly reprehensible. It could be argued that frequent border conflicts between the two countries, Hanoi's expulsion of 180,000 ethnic Chinese and, in particular, its invasion of Cambodia and overthrow of the China-backed Pol Pot regime have forced China to do something to prove its strength and its commitment to supporting its allies...
Norton's tally--her seventh of the season--proved to be the winner, as Harvard's customary third-period letdown did not prove fatal. The firepower of Norton wasn't all Harvard skaters had going for them on Saturday, though...
...prove that Stage Two is still very much alive, the White House inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, has been busily talking up the program. Last week he called on shoppers to boycott retailers who could not explain stiff price increases. He also reported that so far 207 of the 500 largest corporations have agreed to go along with the price guidelines. None of the others, he announced, had as yet said, "To hell with...
...including Sony and Matsushita, are known to have developed disc machines. Evidently they do not want to begin promoting videodiscs while sales of VTR machines remain strong. A Sony spokesman insists: "We don't think the public is yet ready for the discs." Magnavox and RCA hope to prove him wrong...
...years after they had published it. In all 14 publishers and 13 literary agents failed to recognize the book when it was sent unsolicited by an author who called himself Erik Demos. Demos is the nom de hoax chosen by Chuck Ross, a Los Angeles freelance writer out to prove what thousands of aspiring first novelists already know: it is virtually impossible for an unknown author to break into print through the U.S. mails with what is known in the trade as an "over the transom" manuscript. One of the extremely rare exceptions to the rule was Judith Guest...